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• Cesare wiping the tears from Vannozza's face and escorting her to Lucrezia's wedding, Rodrigo's decree be damned.
• The ending to "Nessuno", if you ignore the shots of the piled-up bodies of Black Plague victims in Naples. The entire extended Borgia family - Rodrigo, Vannozza, Cesare, Juan, Gioffre, Sancia, and even Ursula and Giulia - are gathered together for the birth of Lucrezia's son. Happy, smiling Borgias! No one committing murder or conspiracy for once!
  • Particularly lovely - at least, to this troper - is when Giulia and Rodrigo walk in, and they and Vannozza are in the same room for the first time. No screaming, ranting, raving, or other nastiness goes on. Instead, the worst that happens is that Vannozza is a bit chilly toward Giulia, which is understandable, and she and Rodrigo reminisce about the birth of their own children and how much they loved them.
• In the episode "Paolo", the titular character, Lucrezia's estranged lover and the father of her child, after seeing Lucrezia in Rome for the first time with the promise of seeing her again, is so joyous that he says he has seen Heaven (and might again). His devotion and sincerity is so obvious that the world-wise prostitute who was acting as his tour guide, who sneered at the wealth flaunted by the Borgia family, and who just finished going down on a priest, is moved to tears and gives him a hug. How things work out, though, is more of a Tear Jerker.
• Cesare's efforts to reunite Lucrezia with Paolo despite knowing full well that neither his father nor his brother would approve it. And later, he scatters a staring crowd by waving his sword furiously to protect Lucrezia as she weeps over Paolo's dead body.
  • Vannozza's involvement as well, allowing Lucrezia and Paolo to use her home despite the risk inherent. It's not the first time she's gone against Rodrigo's wishes, and she knows Juan disapproves as well. Add that to the fact that she "knows something about secrets" and loving a man who should be unattainable, and you can see that while she hates to see Lucrezia in this situation, she'll do what she can to make it better.